Textures

This page contains articles and links related to making/importing textures, editing .mtr files and others related to the mod.

Making Textures

• Texture Guidelines -- (Info on our hi-res repository, and what sizes to use for textures)
• Texture Folder Structure -- (Where to save new textures)
• Texture Creation - Basic Tutorial
• Basic Material File -- (How to get a new texture in game)
• Common Texture Mistakes
• Detail Textures
• How To Make Your Own Visportal-texture
• How to give Textures a nice Glow
• Inverse Normalmaps -- (A way to check if your normalmaps are correct)
• No more Heightmaps -- (Basic info for turning a heightmap into a normalmap)
• Remove Shadows in Source Images
• Wall Texture Tutorial -- (How to make good normalmaps with Maya)
• Creating Textures with Normals out of Models -- (More info on using modeling software to make normalmaps)
• oDDity face texture tutorial

Textures for Models

• Creating Multiple Skins For A Model -- (How to swap different textures on the same model)

Other

• Fast Re-Texturing of your Map
• Surface Types -- (How to tell the engine whether your surface is stone, wood, grass, etc)
• Grey Border Around Transparent GUI -- (sometimes transparent .tgas have an unwanted grey border)

Links

• Mayang - Free Textures